RT Journal
A1 FLANDERS LW
T1 THe medical society and the medical men of one hundred years ago
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD February 20
VO LII
IS 8
SP 629
OP 631
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.25420340027001h
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.25420340027001h
AB That medicine is an all-absorbing profession is a trite saying. If we were to bring two doctors into this room, the one from the coast of Maine, the other from the coast of California, the chances are more than even that they would be talking medicine within ten minutes. The one would brag a bit over a cure he had effected when recovery seemed impossible, and when even Dame Nature herself was wringing her hands in despair; the other would shake his head gravely over the mistaken diagnosis of a brother practitioner, a diagnosis that should have been as plain as the nose on one's face, and which was instantly made by the narrator when called in consultation. These little preliminaries settled, both would begin to discuss cases in which the patients obstinately refused to be cured in spite of diagnostic skill, or scientific treatment.In order that medical men